No, my friend, once you are talking about HD/ digital TV signals, the deciding factors are the rain for the satellite and then the cost and variety selection.

The digital signal takes most of the factors out of the decision.

I live in the Sunny South and we do get heavy rain squalls that causes outages. Usually they only happen once in a while and then for 10-15 minutes or less.

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